# Treat "Dot" as a normal character in query\_string query **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 18, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730 "2014-07-18T05:56:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Curt\_Hu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Curt\_Hu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Curt_Hu)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730/1 "2014-07-18T05:56:37Z")
How can I treat the Dot '.' as the normal character in the query\_string, as I want to search "[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)" as the whole string in the query\_string, the current results for me are so strange.. ---
**Author:** ![vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vineeth_mohan_2/32/747_2.png) [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730/2 "2014-07-18T06:12:58Z")
Hello Curt , I believe you are chasing the wrong solution. I feel what you need is something in the analyzer rather than search query. Can you paste the output you are seeing. Thanks Vineeth On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Curt Hu [zhongting.hu@gmail.com](mailto:zhongting.hu@gmail.com) wrote: > How can I treat the Dot '.' as the normal character in the query\_string, > as I > want to search "[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)" as the whole string in the query\_string, > the > current results for me are so strange.. > > -- > View this message in context: > [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Treat-Dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query-tp4060154.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Treat-Dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query-tp4060154.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1405662997693-4060154.post%40n3.nabble.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1405662997693-4060154.post%40n3.nabble.com) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5%3D\_Ox16V9F-H7QyL-NBPn7Gn49saQkikD0KJoC-P1iN8w%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5%3D_Ox16V9F-H7QyL-NBPn7Gn49saQkikD0KJoC-P1iN8w%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Curt\_Hu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Curt\_Hu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Curt_Hu)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730/3 "2014-07-18T06:42:02Z")
Yeah, Thanks It's kind of the strange results for me. What I am doing is just a simple query\_string query with a specific field, let's call that "domain". If I do the query\_string "[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)", I got like 10k results, looks good, since the "domain" field in the results are all "[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)" (I have not checked the total 10k results, I just randomly pick some), and if I changed to some bad strings like "[www.abcdefg.com](http://www.abcdefg.com)", then I got 0 hits, also good. But if I search something else like "[www.loyal3.com](http://www.loyal3.com)", here are strange: I returned like 40k results, some of them the domain field is "[www.loyal3.com](http://www.loyal3.com)", some are no any relationship, like "[eatmywords365.com](http://eatmywords365.com)". So, how does query\_string query treat the dot? Or there are something else wrong? ---
**Author:** ![vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vineeth_mohan_2/32/747_2.png) [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730/4 "2014-07-18T07:58:42Z")
Helli Curt , I believe the issue is as follows - If you havnt done anything with the analyzer , the default behavior is as follows - When [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) is indexed its tokenized into [ "www" , "google" , "com" ] and stored. Same is applied when you search so if a document have either of www , google , com , then its a match. So you wont mostly get what you want. You need to do some tweaking in the analyzers to add this feature. Thanks Vineeth On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Curt Hu [zhongting.hu@gmail.com](mailto:zhongting.hu@gmail.com) wrote: > Yeah, Thanks > > It's kind of the strange results for me. > What I am doing is just a simple query\_string query with a specific field, > let's call that "domain". > If I do the query\_string "[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)", I got like 10k results, looks > good, since the "domain" field in the results are all "[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)" (I > have not checked the total 10k results, I just randomly pick some), and if > I > changed to some bad strings like "[www.abcdefg.com](http://www.abcdefg.com)", then I got 0 hits, > also > good. But if I search something else like "[www.loyal3.com](http://www.loyal3.com)", here are > strange: I returned like 40k results, some of them the domain field is > "[www.loyal3.com](http://www.loyal3.com)", some are no any relationship, like "[eatmywords365.com](http://eatmywords365.com)". > > So, how does query\_string query treat the dot? Or there are something else > wrong? > > -- > View this message in context: > [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Treat-Dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query-tp4060154p4060160.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Treat-Dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query-tp4060154p4060160.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1405665722459-4060160.post%40n3.nabble.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1405665722459-4060160.post%40n3.nabble.com) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5mX%3D4%3DZDrE6sgQv5%2B-NqWZjbmnyPRTmSNXXfP7KZKNnCw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5mX%3D4%3DZDrE6sgQv5%2B-NqWZjbmnyPRTmSNXXfP7KZKNnCw%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Curt\_Hu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Curt\_Hu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Curt_Hu)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730/5 "2014-07-18T14:52:24Z")
Thanks very much, I have not done anything to analyzer, should use default. So as you said. "When [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) is indexed its tokenized into ["www" , "google" , "com"] and stored. Same is applied when you search so if a document have either of www , google , com , then its a match. So you wont mostly get what you want." Then my question is why my query on "[www.abcde.com](http://www.abcde.com)" doesn't give any hits, at least I have "www", "com" here and and should got hits for "www" and "com". ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/treat-dot-as-a-normal-character-in-query-string-query/18730/6 "2017-07-06T01:14:51Z")